The Power of Jacinda

So Jacinda visited Johnson just before he was dumped upon by all those ministers.  Just like she visited May, a day or two before she resigned. 

It can only be that she is the appointed Emissary of the Western World, whose job is to tell inept rulers that their Time Is Up.

She couldn't face meeting Trump. so she dumped him by text.

Temporary

For a few hours at the weekend, Tottenham were top of the Premier League.  It is rumoured that, emulating Trump, Spurs' Jose Mourinho declared they had won the competition, and called on everyone else to stop playing.

US Presidential Result

 A fair response from Clare.

Obama Spin Laden

OK, so I may be a glass half empty kind of person, but all the same. The weight of expectation being placed on Obama, the sense of uncritical relief that a discredited, right-wing conservative executive is finally leaving, the notion that the new bod is a great communicator, who has also brought together a collaboration of many different talents, the use of the family to help with the message, the sloganising - they all remind me of someone else.

The parallels aren’t exact, of course, but where we now have the Bob the Builderesque “Yes We Can” we once had “Things Can Only Get Better”. Just as with Blair, people are projecting all of their hopes on Obama, in reaction to his predecessor. There is a desire for radical change being invested in a politician who I suspect is profoundly uninterested, at heart, in the concept.

The only direction left to the new President is down; he will disappoint. Not all of the time, not everybody, and not every day. But he will disappoint.

Like I said, glass half empty.